melog-20101123.log.1

i had a sudoku puzzle that i had neglected for a while. i finally finished it and here's the out put:

You Win!

You completed the puzzle in 2 years, 10 months, 3 weeks, 4 days, 21 hours, 15 minutes and 5 seconds (2 hours, 21 minutes and 19 seconds active)

You got 0 hints

two years to solve a sudoku puzzle, eh?

well, 2 hours was the active time. i suppose that's still slow by a lot of people's standards.

well, my wife is still out. i guess she's having a good time.

how come i don't get to stay out late?

melog-20101123.log.0

i used to listen to pandora online radio rather frequently. especially after i learned how to link my pandora account with my roku box and play songs over the tv.

once my family found out . . . all your stations r belong to us.

my perfectly calibrated, personalized radio stations became hijacked and started being seeded with songs that contain lyrics like, "if you're sexy and you know it, clap your hands".

man . . . i like hip hop, but c'mon.

that's the other problem with pandora . . . all songs are the explicit versions. and, the roku box is so easy to manipulate. keeping kids from hearing a lot of explicit music it difficult to do without simply banning the radio stations.

i just renamed my station, "hijacked radio: my kids hijacked my stations".

if there is anything personal in your life, be sure that your kids, spouse, and nephew will hijack it in time.

oh well, when you can't beat 'em-- bounce wit it, drop wit it, lean wit it . . .

melog-20101123.log

i feel exonerated! i was supposed to have a project finished by 11/15 and i still haven't figured it out yet. but, after people started looking at the problem with me, we've found that we had very poor installation documentation. crucial steps were omitted from the install documentation and i've received very little support from the vendor of the product i'm trying to install.

once some people smarted than me realized the problem was in the documentation, i stopped feeling so bad about not being on schedule with the install.

so then, it's not my fault. it's the documentation's fault.

and even after trying to add in the omitted instructions, the gurus above me can't figure it out. so, i'm not crazy! yeah!

working with linux, unix, databases, and unfamiliar, open source programs, you often run into a lot of terse, cryptic (i really mean: bad) documentation.

now that i have evidence that the documentation was the problem, a weight has lifted off my shoulders. i was so stressed earlier.

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my dear wife is having some confidence issues today. i wish i could wave my had and they all disappear. but, it's not that simple. i hate to see her that way. she's so hard on herself and becomes rather depressed at times.

but, she's doing a workout right now in the living room. so . . . maybe that will lift her spirits.

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i went to an indian restaurant today and met my wife and a family friend there. good eats!

funny . . . a co-worker of mine went to a training class in new york city last week. he said that the city has an area known as indian curry lane that has almost 100 indian restaurants in the area.

wow. we probably only have two indian restaurants in our whole state!

well, i know that at least one of the two restaurants in our state is really good.

after my wife finishes her work out, she going to meet a new lady friend that i introduced to her a few days ago. she seems nervous about it. that's so odd to me. i would never be nervous if i were meeting another dude. she's going to meet her for coffee or something while i keep the kids (again).

i guess i'll fix some more tyson chicken patties for the kids. i think i'll just have a can of chilly beans for myself or maybe some ramen noodles.

i suck at cooking.